Qalandar is a kind of Temperament running in salasil of Sufis.. There cannot be a classification of Good or Bad Qalandars..

If someone perceived to be a sufi was seen doing acts which contradicted General norms of Shariah & Plain reason & in opposition to the accepted sufi way of life, then he probably is a Majzoob & cannot be followed or held accountable to..

We had a thread with a detailed description of Qalandars & Their Way of Life.. with an attachment of a Risalah By Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi on the same Topic.. Here is the Link.

Sharing a message received in WhatsApp: "Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Indonesia and Egypt were NOT Islamic countries to begin with.
Remaining India also will NOT remain secular the day there are even 40% Muslims. Islam and secularism, democracy, equality don’t go together. Secularism doesn’t sustain simply because it is written in some book called constitution. Resolutions of vegetarianism by sheep don’t matter as long the wolf has other ideas."

I was upset. Muslims are getting the worse end of the stick in India today and then the Saffronites have the cheek to sow and plant this kind of messages. The person who posted this is a convent educated Hindu physicist who gets upset with every manifestation of communal bigotry in our country. He resides in a very communally charged state of Rajasthan in North India. So many times even a person of his sagacity gets stumped by the questions hurled at the people by the Saffron bigots.

Here I shall not answer the accusation inherent in above WhatsApp message by my friend. I would like to answer the other side of the question.

If we look at the Islamic history we realize that Islam did not spread by constant conquests by the big-wigs of Islamic military cavalcade. Look at the initial events. Badr was certainly a monumental victory. After that Uhad was less than a face saver. Hunain was a lesson to us. The Battle of Confederates was merely an escape more out of providence than the physical efforts that were certainly valiant. Take the numerous battles amongst the Sahaba RA themselves - they do not inspire much confidence.

Take later times. The crusaders unleashed long drawn calamities on Muslims. The Mongols did to Islam and Muslims what history never did before and after.

Come to still later times. Muslims were expunged from Europe and from Spain the expulsion was most horrific.

Then we have the that ignominious period called the European Colonization of Muslim world. At the moment we are living in a period that the West has told us to be the Post Colonial period yet it is most ugly period from the point of view of self respect. The West has the Muslim world in its complete grip economically, politically and militarily and allows Israel to commit most heinous crimes against us.

In this background the the views expressed in the above status received by my friend on WhatsApp and posted on Facebook are very strange.

How did Islam spread and how did it become glorious? Above set of events would give a very different outcome from what is presented in the Facebook status and what we know of history of Muslims.

Clear we have to separate two things. Muslim conquests and spread of Islam. By the Grace of Allah SWT an Aligarh scholar of British origin Professor Thomas walker Arnold has already done the needful for half of the problem more than a hundred years ago. He wrote the famous book called The Spread of Islam. Earlier it was called the Preaching of Islam in the World. This is a must read book for every Muslim and we better learn to shove it down the throat of anyone hinting, following Edward Gibbon, that Muslims came out with the Qur'an in one hand and the sword in the other. (I suppose they were holding the reins of the horse by the mouth.) In that monumental survey Arnold broke the backbone of Gibbons conjecture once and for all. Remember scholars and scholarship like TW Arnold is not going to return to this world again and hence the enemies of Islam might try as much as they can they will never be able to over through this finest academic analysis. And those who try can be answered in a befitting manner.

So this Spread of Islam Using Sword theory is long dead and it can be allowed to remain so.

But the fact remains that many of the Muslim countries of today were free from Islam. How did it happen. If we think carefully then this question too has been answered already. Specific answer is that Islam spread through the Sufis and the traders and that is all. In fact our Dawah department has not been as active and assertive as the Christian proselytizers. Never. The Sufis were busy spreading the message of love and the traders were busy doing trade on Islamic principles. The whole miracle of spread of Islam resides in these twin facts.

We are still left to deal with the military conquests by Muslims. To be on the forthright side we Muslims of today neither owe any explanation in this regard nor there is any cause to be ashamed of.

Some critics might still ask questions about the values and the way of life and the culture spread by Islam. The answer in each of these three issues is most glorious and Muslims do keep telling about it. Arnold again did the needful in his another compilation edited by Gillaume called The Legacy of Islam. That is another book that every Muslim must read.

All this will still leave those people unsatisfied who asked the question in the Facebook status. We shall allow those people to simmer in their own soup for neither they are in a condition to imbibe the truth now nor they ever will be.

This finally brings me to a very important question that is there in the background of this all. The Saffronite Hindu is using this kind of calumny to spread hatred and venom against hapless Muslims. What should be done in this matter and what can be done?

I have some raw ideas, after investing so many years here at MS and before that on SF. I need friends both here at MS and in AMU to clarify these ideas. I have been constantly reporting on these two fronts here. My ideas revolve around Muslim academics taking the initiative to do their bit in the process of taking Muslim Ummah out of her present bad state.

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What is written by the learned writer on the Facebook and quoted by you obviously does not make sense.One could argue that the present day Hindu religion was not the faith of the local Indians before Arian invasion,Christianity was not the religion of Europe,America,australia etc. Ideologies do spread,sometimes through physical conquest,sometimes through economic benefits attached or social acceptance but mostly through the spiritual force of the ideology...

Had muslims used force or used their dominance in any other way across India when they ruled,today Muslims would be in majority in India. I wish they had done that....but it remains a fact that Muslims had always been the most tolerant rulers wherever they ruled,in terms of personal faith.

Maripat,we learn one simple rule from Sharia: where we can fight and resist,we do that; where we can’t fight we remain patient and steadfast. In both instances we remain attached to Allah swt and remain dependant on HIS mercy.

What I suggested earlier in another post on another thread was the result of my deliberation on the situation,whatever it’s worth may be :

*Working for Muslim unity

*closing ranks by all Muslim groups irrespective of minor differences

*remaining peaceful and avoiding provocations

*taking advantage of Indian‘democracy’,using the ‘power of vote’

*and defeating extremism with non-violence and the message of peaceful coexistence

Those are the key components of the strategy we must adopt. Knee jerk reactions,emotional outbursts,ideas of armed resistance must be discouraged. Those secular forces who politically oppose the extremists must be kept on our side using the strength of our vote and support. If possible a movement (without a religious outlook) should be started on the lines of پیامِ انسانیت model which was initiated by Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadvi ra in early eighties. You may find some more details about it in his autobiography.

In the long run,concrete efforts are needed for economic uplift and education of our youth. There are still some rich Indian Muslims left,they should be convinced to contribute to “interest free loan programme” started by Ml Asad Madani (رحمہ اللہ). This way muslims can start small business easily and help in the economic revival of the community. May Allah SWT help us all. Having written it all I must state that if it comes to the Iman of Indian Muslims then there is only one option left..Fight like true Muslims do.

Brother I agree with most of the points and I suppose we shoud start a concrete programme for the betterment of Muslim Ummah in all earnest. I shall take up your suggestions and those of another brother and a few sisters later on.

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I distinctly heard he was sobbing.
His usual and normal profile is of a sober guy.
His beard is Salafi kind - if you get what I mean.
In fact his father has been worried about his Salafi obsession.
I myself had done my bit of counseling in this case.
I had seen a Deoband Mufti, young one, was called to his home for the same.
For quite some time he has given up, visibly, those fancy Salafi proclivities.
And this time he was sobbing.
May be he has done one of these courses where they teach you Qur'anic Arabic meaning.

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He is a Khalifa of Hazrat Iftikharul Hasan Sahab Kandhalwi. I have been seeing him leading the Eid prayers in our local Eidgah since my childhood.

In Eid-ul-Fitr prayers his cries have always been "Allah ka woh mehmaan, Ramadan, chala gaya". He says it with so much of agony that I have always been at a loss to understand how badly we are disconnected from Deen. For us Ramadan is a tough trial. He always cried over its departure. People like me would heave a sigh of relief at the departure of Ramadan. Haji Sahab always told us the opposite.

This is the fragrance and light and guidance spread around us by Deoband.

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On the social media, there are many Rafaji Sahafi, who are present on the date of the Islamic date, and the issue is that the common men do not accept this statement from the person, and he confesses those false sentences and if interested in any date If a person who keeps a brief comment from the Islamic date gives a question on it, then he will present the date-e-tabri, as a reference, and these people are also Allama ja Reer listening to Tabri's name becomes silent
Just a few days ago, one of our journalists, who has been given a book by Rafjit, wrote a post and in it Sahba-e-Kiram Rizwanullah adhered to Kanjaya on the basis of the loan, and when I termed the sentence as false, then Allama Sutti and Tabri began to refer to et al. But when I did this tasim I also believe that this sentence is present but who is the one who is telling the sentence, it is fascinating about him. What is the opinion of Qikin, whether the sanctioned statement of what is the sanad and the health of it, and so on, if not, then Hazrat Sahib did not notice again.
The issue is that the book has filled a lot in the book, but it is not possible to say that all is true, but one thing is said by Maulana Abul al Mauddudi (Raha.) That if the same principle of checking the date is adopted If it was adopted in the hadith, it would mean that 90% of the time would end, that means that there is a basic way of writing the date. One of these is that if a rayayat of any sentence meets the historian, then he In the same way, join us in your book, and the other way is to investigate that revival and then add it after that. But the issue comes when the Moorekh has adopted both approaches in one book and the problem is All the books that were started have such an approach, that is what they heard and written in some sentences after adding a check-in-cash, now the next researches are the same. It is seen before all that it is taken from Riyyat and then who is Ravi and then what is Ravi like that, if there is any falsehood, if it is false and has made a statement by defending on your side, then It is the charm of proving Revayt
Usually Tabri is presented as a lot of handover and this approach has been adopted in Tabri, which means that after adding some Rivayat after making a complaint and adding something like that, it is included in the date-a-tabri
The date-a-tabri has 12 consecutive races, out of which 7 are false and Kajab, and these are included in the 1999 Rivayat Tabri and the names of those names are (1) Muhammad bin Saeb Kelbi: - Includes 12 Rewat 2) Hisham Bin Kalki - 55 Rewait (3) Muhammad bin Umar- 440 Raiyit (4) Saif bin Umar Tamimi- 700 Riyat (5) Abu Mahfat Lot bin Yahya- Rivayat (6) Hesham bin Adi-: 16 Rivayat ( 7) Muhammad bin Ishaq's 164 revelation is included in the date-e-Tabri and of Mohkquin It is true that all of these are Qazabs and all the raffies that used to fabricate a false sentence to prove their religion, besides five, such is the one which is the truth, that is, from those who are truthful (1) (2) Includes 164 revolutions from Muhammad bin Sadah (3) 7 Riyyat (4) from Caliph Bin Khakta (1) and (5) Wahab bin Monbah 46 References from Musa bin Uqba is included in Tabri and their number is 209
Now, you have to admit that this is the story of the date-a-tabri-like book and the realization of the authentic, then what will happen to others, so whenever any reference to any book of the date referring specifically to such a sentence If you are tarnished or questioned on any of your statements, then you adopted this approach which I adopted.
Insha Allah Aynda will also talk on the books written by the date-e-Tabri and the second date.

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Prof. Sahab, this reminds me of a short clip by Hazrat Maulana Tariq Jameel Sahab about his early days as a scholar. He would read the tarikh of Tabari and others and would ask his teacher how such things could be attributed to the Sahaba. His esteemed teacher (I think it was Hazrat Maulana Jamshed Sahab) answered, "The touchstone of the character of the Sahaba is Quran and Sunnah, not tarikh Tabari."

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